Institutional pressures driving proactive responsible leadership behaviour in the electric power industry Name Casper
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2024-07-02
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Being a responsible leader in an organisation is a vital part in today’s economy. Organisations
cannot always influence what external pressures affect it, but they can however choose how
they respond to these pressures. By using theory from non-market strategy this study
attempts to find out how organisations in the electric power industry exhibit responsible
leadership behaviour under influence of institutional pressures. Hereby examining how they
range from passive to proactive leadership behaviour. Data is gathered through interviews
with ten organisations active in the electric power industry. The findings show that
institutional pressures from mass media, local community and policy and regulation drive
organisations in the electric power industry to proactive responsible leadership when pressure
increase. Additionally state-ownership of an organisation ensures that organisations are
incentivised to exhibit even further proactive responsible leadership even when institutional
pressures are deemed insignificant and smaller organisations find it difficult to respond to
policy and regulatory pressure as individual organisations and therefore prefer to respond to
pressure via a collective approach.
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Faculteit der Managementwetenschappen